It is foolish to pluck out one's hair for sorrow, as if grief could be assuaged by baldness.

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist among all members of the human race.

It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.

The happiest end of life is this: when the mind and the other senses being unimpaired, the same nature which put it together takes asunder her own work.

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

The more laws, the less justice.